376 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
long, about 1—5 cm. broad; midrib slender, obscure; main nerves 
1—2 pairs, from close to the base only and very oblique, scarcely 
visible on the lower surface; reticulation not apparent; petiole none 
or at least under 3 mm. long. Flowers yellow-orange, in very short 
pedunculate pairs, 1—-2 together in the axils of the leaves or of fallen 
leaves: peduncle about 1 mm. long as are the pedicels; bract' small, 
ovate, acute; bracteoles minute, in a 2-lobed lip. Calyz-tube ovoid, 
2mm long, prominently papillose, the limb a mere rim. Corolla-tube 
glabrous, cylindric in bud and 6-angled, funnel-shaped in flower, 7—8 
mm. long; lobes 6, prominently papillose without, spathulate and 
recurved in flower, 5—6 mm. long. Stamens 6; anthers oblong, 
1—5 mm. long; filaments slender, 5 mm. long. Ovary ovoid; style 
slender ; stigma capitate. Fruit not known. 
SinGaPore: at Kranji, Ridley 2045! 
8. ELYTRANTHE RETUSA, G. Don Gen. Syst. Dichl. Pl. III. 425 
(1834). A parasitic glabrous shrub; branchlets stout, rough, lenti- 
cellate, greyish-brown; nodes swollen. Leaves opposite or sub- 
opposite, thickly coriaceous ; obovate, elliptic or orbicular, sometimes 
obcordate, obtuse or retuse at apex, cuneate or attenuate at base; 
upper surface somewhat shining, olive-brown when dry, lower dull; 
margins recurved; 5—12 cm. long, 2°5—5 cm. broad; midrib rather 
stout, raised on both surfaces; main nerves 3—5 pairs, obscure and 
sometimes invisible; reticulation obscure; petiole very stout, 5—7 
mm. long. Flowers in racemes of 5—7 up to about 1—5 cm. long, 
solitary or in pairs from the axils of the leaves or of fallen leaves ; 
pedicels slender, 2—3 mm. long; bract ovate, acute, very small; . 
bracteoles combined in a 2toothed cup, minute. Calyzx-tube 
cylindric, 2—3 mm. long, the limb a narrow entire rim. Corolla- 
tube pale rose, cylindric below, dilated below the lobes, up to 2 cm. 
long; lobes 5—6 usually 6, linear, reflexed in flower, 1 cm. long, 
yellowish-green. Stamens 5—6; anthers linear, slender, 3—4 mm. 
long; filaments broad, 5 mm. long. Ovary included in the calyx- 
tube; style slender; stigma capitate. Fruit globosely ovoid, 5—7 
mm. long. Engl. & Prantl Naturl. Pflanzenfam. III. i. 188; 
Koord. Exkurs. Fl. Jav. II. 164. Loranthus retusus, Jack in Roxb. 
Fl. Ind. ed. Carey and Wall. II 212; DC. Prodr. IV. 296; Wall. Cat. 
504 in part; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. -V. 219. Macrosolen retusus, Miq. 
Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 828 ; van Tiegh. in Bull. Bot. Soc. Fr. XLII. 442. 
Perak: at Lumut on Hugenia, Ridley 9432!. Matacca: Griffith 
K. D. 2703!; Maingay K. D. 688!; Cuming 2305!; on Dacrydium, 
